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â€œThe correct rule on the necessity of expert testimony has been summarized by Bob Dylan: â€˜You donâ€™t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,â€™ â€ a California appeals court wrote in 1981, citing â€œSubterranean Homesick Blues.â€ Eighteen other decisions have cited that lyric.

While one may not need a weatherman (who may or may not be a meteorologist) one should in fact consult an expert in legal matters, just incase the apparent truth of the breeze may simply be the eye of a much larger storm.

This is all about this quote:

â€œThe absence of any right to the substantive recovery means that respondents cannot benefit from the judgment they seek and thus lack Article III standing,â€ Chief Justice Roberts wrote. â€œ â€˜When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.â€™ Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone, on Highway 61 Revisited (Columbia Records 1965).â€

I suspect when a Chief Justice bowdlerizes a quote from an old hippy I should think back to the fact that Ann Coulter is apparently a Deadhead and take heart that there was always a good reason to dislike the old hippies. The most prominent fact being that the children of hippies tended to end up as Conservative Douchebags (albeit successful and wealthy douchebags).

It’s such a tragedy that “You know you’re Right” is such a good God damn song. Nirvana put out some real classics, and this was one of them.

Sad, and silly; Kurt Cobain may have simply been unable to cope with fame, or perhaps not, we may never know for sure.

I wonder if we would have given this much focus to a boy band member had they topped themselves?

BTW: Ben Affleck is not the Bomb in the new Daredevil Movie if the trailer where he gives a voice over is any indication. He sounds flat and stilted, and hammy. As per usual you may say, but I’d had high hopes for this one, which seems to capitalize upon that great razorbat scene in Spider-man. Shoot.

I’m in the midst of moving the site over to SSL/HTTPS for administration purposes at least. Which means changing my backend security and so on; which proved to be a bear where graphics where relative rather than direct links. Ah well. It’s working now. The Upgrade is working too! I have a valid SSL cert (I think) and it appears to be working.